#q talk

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[dwtdog]

the qsmp revolutionized the use of mods to communicate in minecraft yeah (I dont count the usmp mostly bc it didnt come out unfortanely) but it's also the server that will be remenbered as the international server that was sued /threaten to be sued by a french union for treating workers badly. Im sad for the team behind it bc they give a lot for it and this was their project too not only Q but i guess it's for the best. A negligent boss who cant maintain a company and a server without exploiting people shouldnt be let continuing and hurting others. I hope this a wake up call for Q and the community of the qsmp/ex dsmp toxics fans in regards of what they demand bc if it wasnt for people demands things like what happened with the admins wouldnt have happened, this was the price for the expecific type of content the public wanted and demanded that the dsmp didnt give them and Q pay it with sweat and tears from his workers

very good points, and i just think that it being remembered as the egg server/ the server that got sued is just. very indicative of how it ultimately failed at its goal ? like it does seem like a lot of the ccs on there did form genuine friendships with each other, and that the community of the server spanned many languages and cultures, but it was handled so poorly what with the disregard for workers rights and the xenophobia many brazilian fans and streamers experienced

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im going thru all my writing n editing up any typos (that i should have seen b4 posting but o well) and making some sentences flow better so if u see a very very very slight difference in smth u read before, this is why

[wisdomfish]

Paglia: Transgender & Civilization’s Decline

Rod Dreher shares a fascinating little clip from a “Camille Paglia discussion at last fall’s Battle Of Ideas festival in the UK, in which the lesbian scholar and provocateur identifies transgenderism as a mark of a civilization deep into decadence, nearing collapse.”

Along these lines, here’s a clip from a post I put up last year, about a Q talk given by political scientist Dale Kuehne. He studies the family and society, and he says we have reached “a gender tipping point.” Excerpt:

No wonder journalists are noticing that this is a significant time. But most are still missing what’s most important: while today’s conversations push the boundaries of how we understand gender, they don’t understand that this brave new world of identity is about more than gender.

The students with whom I associate—from middle school to college students—have understood for several years that we now reside in a world beyond gender. The youngest of them probably don’t realize that TIME’s article announced anything “new.”

For many of them, gender discussions, even of the transgender variation, are just so yesterday. When we talk about personal identity, we don’t include the mundane questions about being male and/or female. A person can certainly identify as male or female if they wish, but there is little expectation that one would do so.

After all, today Facebook gives us over 50 “gender” identities to choose from. (Conversations about this can involve questions about why there are so few options.) And rather than looking to gender or variations on a gender, more and more young people are seeking to discover their identity by widening the options to include “otherkins” (people who consider themselves to have a non-human identity, such as various animals, spirits, mediums, and so on).

Young people today are much less binary when it comes to understanding identity because “male” and “female” as categories don’t express a unique or comprehensive identity.

When I tell this to many adult audiences, they laugh, believing that young people will grow out of this “stage.” They’re surprised that I don’t share their sense of the immaturity of our youth.

That’s because the young people with whom I interact are extraordinarily perceptive, compared to adults. As one high school student recently asked me, “Why does our school demand that we figure out if we are male or female or some variation? How could we figure it out even if we cared about gender? Can you tell me what it feels like to be woman? Can you tell me what it feels like to be a man? Of course not. No one knows.”

Precisely.

If everything is reduced to gender—even liquid gender—then how can anyone know by a solely internal exploration if they feel male or female?

What does it feel like to be a man? It can’t just mean that I am attracted to women, because it is okay to be attracted to men. It can’t just mean I feel like a lumberjack—because what does it mean to feel like a lumberjack? It can’t simply mean to be drawn to women’s clothes because what makes some garments women’s clothes?

In short, if the ultimate source of reference is the self, and if no other self than the individual is a reference point, how can you know who or what you are?

Indeed. The kids are right.

We don’t live at a tipping point; we already live beyond the tipping point. Whether adults realize it or not, the most important conversation today is not about gender, but about identity, as released from the confines of gender.

Kuehne thinks this is a very bad thing, because it is part — indeed, perhaps the end point — of the total deconstruction of the relational bases of society and its refashioning to serve the needs of the sovereign Self. You see Paglia’s point. She said this in one of her 1990s essays; it’s still applicable:

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damn whats going on over there https://twitter.com/Missaupdateseng/status/1673601921486036993?t=v7sVlytsFzQXXEARu5z7Aw&s I'm sorry but someone free these streamers

this is beautiful and although i fell bad for they guy i am cackaling a little bit

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Tommy saying “Quackity put a lot more time into his SMP than I have, I don’t want to put myself to his level” is extremely frustrating. Like NO— Tommy the DSMP started out EXACTLY LIKE THIS. I don’t want this idea of “you have to be super organized to be considered an SMP” to spread.

couldnt agree more its infuriating an smp is literally just a server it shouldnt imply anything more than that at all i hate the narrative that all content has to be the top end and the most organised stuff ever i dont fawking want that i want 8 people pissing about on minecraft for 2 hours is that too much to ask for

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people going ‘loudduo crumbs’ are pissing me tf off why would you want them interacting again i thought q made his public position and feelings incredible clear and it very much at dreams expense

[patchesjam]

yeah this is also very true i think also especially because so few english speaking members log on regularly (Especially from the usual mcyt crowd) like you literally have philza and foolish and theyre not particularly producers of meta in mcyt area which also adds to its 'exclusivity' feel